Description: City staff in Toronto and Ottawa have developed draft regulations that would create a new set of rules for app-based ride hailing services. Source: Tech Vibes Date: April 11, 2016 On Friday, Ottawa City Council’s community and protective services committee voted to approve the new regulations. That means they’ll go before the entire city council… Read more »
Posts Tagged: Ch. 5 – E-Business and E-Commerce
Now Competing To Be The Master Of Your Domain: Squarespace
Description: Squarespace’s newest product offering takes direct aim at domain registrars like GoDaddy. Source: Fast Company Date: April 15, 2016 Squarespace and a handful of companies like Wix and WordPress parent Automattic serve as the 800-pound gorillas of the website hosting and content worlds. Now Squarespace is looking to take on GoDaddy and other web domain… Read more »
Beekeeper, the mobile-first communications platform for blue-collar and service workers, raises $5M
Description: Beekeeper, the Switzerland and U.S.-based startup that provides a mobile-first communications platform for employers that need a better way to communicate with blue-collar and service-oriented workers, has beefed up its coffers with $5 million in new funding. Source: Tech Crunch Date: April 15, 2016 Founded back in 2012, Beekeeper has its roots in a mobile… Read more »
Why being forced to wake up translates to more money
Description: Why being forced to wake up translates to more money Source: CNN Money Date: April 14, 2016 The snooze button might be a temporary relief to your worst morning enemy but this noise-making device sings hallelujah to factory owners at the turn of 20th century. CNN’s Rachel Crane explains how the invention of the mechanical… Read more »
Hey Millennials, Your Mom Is About to Follow You on Snapchat
Description: Though Snapchat has mostly been known as a disappearing message app teens love, the show isn’t for them. Gary Vaynerchuk, an early investor in the service, has been watching it for a while, and his bet is that Snapchat is finally aging up. Source: Wired Date: January 14, 2016 It’s part of a mounting body… Read more »
Netflix Viewers Don’t Care About the Company’s Proxy Crackdown
Description: Thursday, Netflix announced that it plans to crack down on people using proxy servers to access content that isn’t licensed to be streamed in their country. Source: Motherboard Date: January 15, 2016 Due to the vagaries of licensing agreements with different content providers, not every country’s Netflix catalog is the same—in some cases, it’s not… Read more »
The Next Step for Online Gaming? Simulating the World.
Description: For all the legions of programmers coding the movement of individual blades of grass, and all the advances in processing power and VR, the simulated worlds of online gaming still behave nothing like the real one. Source: Wired Date: January 12, 2016 “In the last few years we’ve seen the abysmal failure of games attempting… Read more »
Foursquare gets $45 Million and a New CEO
Description: Foursquare just announced some major changes: $45 million in funding and a new CEO. Source: CNN Money Date: January 14, 2016 Questions for discussion: 1. Do you use Foursquare? 2. If you do not use Foursquare, what sort of incentives or features could persuade you to try the platform?
Sony Discusses PlayStation 5 Possibility
Description: Sony’s Shuhei Yoshida states that PS5 will be considered only if developers want to create one. Source: Tech News Today Date: October 3, 2015 While it’s almost going to be two years since Sony launched its current-gen console known as PlayStation 4, the key executives of the company have already started speaking about the PlayStation 5. In… Read more »
El Capitan Boosts Mac Speed, Productivity
Description: Apple on Wednesday made El Capitan available for download to its users from the Mac App Store. Source: Tech News World Date: October 2, 2015 Improved performance and some app enhancements to boost productivity highlight the latest version of Apple’s desktop operating system, OS X 10.11 El Capitan.”Basic operations were just quicker, and Apple did… Read more »
Leading Titles
Introduction to Information Systems, 3rd Canadian Binder Ready Version Update Edition
R. Kelly Rainer, Casey G. Cegielski, Ingrid Splettstoesser-Hogeterp, Cristobal Sanchez-Rodriguez
ISBN: 978-1-119-13385-8
August 2015, © 2016
CDN $98.95; CDN $114.95